{"id":20362,"date":"2023-06-24T10:23:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T16:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20362"},"modified":"2023-06-24T10:23:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T16:23:39","slug":"book-28-of-52-baltimore-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/book-28-of-52-baltimore-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 28 (of 52) &#8211; Baltimore Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20363\" style=\"width: 339px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/baltimoreblues.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20363\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20363\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/baltimoreblues.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/baltimoreblues.jpg 329w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/baltimoreblues-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baltimore Blues &#8211; Laura Lippman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When an out-of-work reporter picks up a side gig tracking the movements of a friend&#8217;s fianc\u00e9, she thinks it will be an easy way to earn a couple of bucks.\u00a0 Instead, her friend winds up arrested for murder.\u00a0 Working for his lawyer, the former reporter digs in to the case, following leads and tracking down witnesses, looking to clear her friend and find the real murderer.<\/p>\n<p><em>Baltimore Blues<\/em> is the first entry in Laura Lippman&#8217;s Tess Monaghan series.\u00a0 I first came across Lippman&#8217;s work back in <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/book-17-of-52-sunburn\/\">2018<\/a> during my trip to Rome, but, despite enjoying that standalone work, I never returned for more until now.\u00a0 While this wasn&#8217;t as good a read as I remember from before, it does give me an entryway into a new series.\u00a0 Assuming the library cooperates, I assume I will start working through this series over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When an out-of-work reporter picks up a side gig tracking the movements of a friend&#8217;s fianc\u00e9, she thinks it will be an easy way to earn a couple of bucks.\u00a0 Instead, her friend winds up arrested for murder.\u00a0 Working for his lawyer, the former reporter digs in to the case, following leads and tracking down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[10682,8023,10683],"class_list":["post-20362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-baltimore-blues","tag-laura-lippman","tag-tess-monaghan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20364,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20362\/revisions\/20364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}